This poor girl! Last year, on her 17th birthday, we were packing up the house all around her. She also was in the midst of a month where she couldn’t taste anything!
This year – it’s her 18th birthday – and we are up to our ears in VBS and other craziness!
Daddy took her to Silver Bay Seafood for a lovely dinner.
We will celebrate as a family on the weekend.
While some of the girls and I were at VBS, Marie and Nan went out for dinner.
I was a leader for one of the groups, and Tabitha helped in another one. Johanna started to help in crafts, but was then asked to help with preschool.
Katriel was a camper.
Also this week – Nigel and I had an information day for students at USCUpstate.
And Katriel ended up with a bug bite so inflamed that we went to Urgent Care.
True story.
The doctor walked into our room – 9:15PM and says, “You’re a few days early!”
Sure enough, we had had Katriel at the same Urgent Care LAST July the night after we moved here for the exact same issue.
Katriel’s perspective it is the same bug that is after her, and it found her again after looking all year long.
And just like that, Tab’s week with Ava came to a close.
We headed back to West Virginia to meet her parents.
Now – the week before, as we’d driven back to SC, we took the route that takes us through the northeast corner of TN. As we were driving I saw the name of a road that crossed over the expressway, and I was all but certain it was the same road that I mailed Rebecca’s Christmas card. When I got home, I looked it up. Lo and behold, our route goes right by my friends’ road!!!
So today, on our way back from WV, we took a 2 mile detour (that’s it… 2 miles!) and we got to stop in and see my dear friend Rebecca, her husband Dana, and two of their boys! What a thrill!! We text regularly, but I hadn’t seen her in well over a year.
It was so good to see her beautiful house and get a real life hug.
Tab and I pushed on.
Through some miserable weather.
And finally made it home.
South Carolina feels more and more like home every single day!
The text came looking for eager helping hands.
We were delighted to respond.
A few hours later, we’d prepped about 100 of these!
These will be handed out to the kids who come to VBS!
We were up and at ‘em and had lunches packed and all the girls headed to the beach for the day.
It was Ava’s first time seeing the ocean.
We were all kind of tired, but the beach was wonderful.
We were home in time for a late dinner.
The day started with some cake making!
And hours later we celebrated our not-so-little boy.
Twenty years ago tonight we were in the hospital waiting for him to go to ICU…
Tonight – it’s cake and presents! God is so faithful!!
Nigel wasn’t interested in fireworks, and Stewart was in NY. The rest of us headed to downtown Fountain Inn for a while.
it was hot
not everyone was patient
But then the show began
And they were actually better than Magic Kingdom’s!
On the road again – Tab and I headed to and from Weston, West Virginia today to meet up with her friend Ava to bring her down to visit for a week.
Like 14 hours later we were home with Ava!
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